Prevalence, Patterns, and Determinants of Malaria and Malnutrition in Douala, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Community-Based Study

Table 5

Effect of malaria infection, age group, and gender on anthropometric parameters.

Parameters	Females			Males			All
	Uninfected	Infected		Uninfected	Infected		Uninfected	Infected
WHZ^a			0.43			0.85			0.67
WAZ^a			0.001			0.33			0.003
HAZ^b			0.10			0.49			0.15
BMIAZ^c			0.88			0.79			0.95
BMI (kg/m^2)^d			0.01			0.56			0.021

Data are presented as (SD), WHZ: weight-for-height score, WAZ: weight-for-age score, HAZ: height-for-age score, BMI: body mass index, BMIAZ: BMI-for-age score. ^aComputed for participants aged 0-5 years old. ^bComputed for participants aged 0-5 years old and 5-19 years old. ^cComputed for participants aged 5-19 years old. ^dComputed for participants aged 20 years old and above. ^eStudent’s -test or Mann-Whitney’s tests were used to compare mean values. Statistically significant at .